3 locks - any thoughts?

[zanthor]

My 3box team is paladin + 2 mages, it's amazing for PVE, I can easily handle anything my level +2 in multiple pulls of up to 4-5. Check the video's section for details, but I'm 40th now and still loving the trio.

[beyond-tec]

as fursphere already mentioned:

every instance is designed for 5 people in the "standard combination" of 3 x Damage, 1 Healer, 1 Tank.

If you chose to make the instance in a 3 man group then you still need a healer, a tank and got only one space left for a damagedealer.

bosses can't be stunned, slowed etc. so you need someone who will stand at the boss with plate armor, a shield and lots of HP.

second thing is that usually a tank can't heal himself. druid can't switch out of bear form to heal himself cause he ain't got armor when he's in caster form. Paladin don't have that much mana to heal himself when he is protection specced and he needs his mana for his spells to get and keep the aggro. If a Paladin isn't holy specced the heals costs a lot of mana so he won't be able to handle this - he is still a hybrid. He can do everything but he can do best what he is specced to.

So you need a healer.

then you got one problem: only one damagedealer in a triple-boxing group. So you won't have enough damage to get the mobs / boss down until your healer / damagedealer runs out of mana (especially in the instances of BC).


triple boxing is very nice for PvP and questing / grinding but I don't think you can make it very far in the PvE Instance content because blizzard made the instances for a group of 5 people. Sure, you can handle a level 50 instance with 3 level 60 chars but I don't think you will enjoy this because the mobs won't get you that much EXP or useful loot so that it is worth grinding the instance.